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The Conquest of the River Plate (1535-1555) - I. Voyage of Ulrich Schmidt to the Rivers La Plata and Paraguai, from the Original German Edition, 1567. II. The Commentaries of Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca, from the Original Spanish edition, 1555 (Hardcover, New Ed)
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The Conquest of the River Plate (1535-1555) - I. Voyage of Ulrich Schmidt to the Rivers La Plata and Paraguai, from the Original German Edition, 1567. II. The Commentaries of Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca, from the Original Spanish edition, 1555 (Hardcover, New Ed)
Series: Hakluyt Society, First Series
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This is a new edition of the volume first published in 1891.
Translated for the Hakluyt Society, and with notes and an
introduction, by Luis L. Dominguez, this volume presents the
accounts of the first two historians who wrote on the conquest of
the Rio de la Plata, which took place in the reign of Charles V,
King of Spain and Emperor of Germany. The first of these was a
German, a native of Straubing, in Bavaria, whose name was Ulrich
Schmidt. Schmidt published a narrative of his voyage under the
title "Warhafftige und liebliche Beschreibung etclieher furnemen
Indianischen Landschafften und Insulen, die vormals in keiner
Chronicken gedacht, und erstlich in der schiffart Ulrici Schmidts
von Straubingen, mit grosser gefahr erkundigt, und von ihm selber
auffs fleissigst beschrieben und dargethan." The first part of this
volume is the book translated into English, for the first time,
from the original German, and now published by the Hakluyt Society.
The second was a Spaniard, native of Jerez de la Frontera in
Andalusia, named Alvar Nunez, better known by the surname which he
took from his mother, Dona Teresa Cabeza de Vaca. Nunez published a
narrative of the events that had happened to him during his term of
office, viz., from 1541 to 1544. This record, the first published
on the conquest of the Rio de la Plata and Paraguai, appeared in
Valladolid in 1555, under the general title "Relacion y Comentarios
de Alcar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca, de lo acaecido en las dos jornadas
que hizo a las Indias. The Relacion refers to his adventures in
Florida, and was first published in 1542,1 while the Comentarios
appeared as a second part of the new edition of his voyages under
the title just mentioned. This is the second book contained in the
present volume.
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